Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 5hJust saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager 1205184848
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Heard this one from my then 4th grader: What do you say when you lose 25% of your roof? OOF! 060
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Elaine Treharne @etreharne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ignorance comes at a cost. Everpure's 'stuck in the Dark Ages' stereotyping (on left) shows how little they know about the early provision of data (on the right). Why does ushering in technologies mean mocking those upon whose knowledge we build? Clearly, these companies need trained humanists! 34911
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Big same. I tried to get into soup last year, but my constant complaint was that it was too wet. 010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I thought it was at least widespread across the midwest! This came about because somebody's neighbor's husband got three (!) deer tags this year so they have to clean out the freezer. 100
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline 2033841265
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Got to describe a meat raffle to a friend this afternoon, since I guess they don't have them in Ohio? We discovered meatraffles.com which honestly has a pretty good way to tell if you'd enjoy a meat raffle. 131
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Did more research and am totally loving Seattle's page about all of this, especially the little templates and notes you can fill out and give to neighbors (or leave at their door if they're not home). 010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Clearly this just needs to be a thread I revisit. Larger house task today that's been languishing for almost three years (set up dehumidifier in musty basement to have some effect until I can do an HVAC upgrade to handle it better) 020
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I love to have a trio of cats that maps to the Three Types of Cats 1. Cats who know they are cats 2. Cats who think they are people 3. Cats who have never had one thought in their whole lives 110
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I mean, it's one health care, Michael. What could it cost, a hundred dollars? 0133
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026There’s already a brilliant RPG about them from @jmstar.bsky.social and @bullypulpithq.bsky.social ! bullypulpitgames.com/products/nig...bullypulpitgames.comNight WitchesThere was a night bomber regiment in World War Two composed entirely of women. Natural-born Soviet airwomen. These 200 women and girls, flying outdated biplanes from open fields near the front lines, ... 020
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think you should be able to request closures like folks do for National Night Out. The city drops off some barriers, everything slows waaay down and drivers are more alert! 140
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Tits Out for Christmas! (Now with a Solo Tit option) 010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Oh sweet, he can totally do this! I'd only looked under the "Volunteer" tab and saw that volunteers need to be at least 16. Thanks! 010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026MSP: where can my kid meet and spend time with some rabbits? He’s been obsessed with watching the wild rabbits in our yard all spring/summer, loves videos of pet rabbits being silly. Are there like… therapy rabbits? Rabbit meet and greet? (Absolutely NOT getting a pet bunny tho) 3111
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Logistics considerations for keynoting: have somewhere you can clip a mic pack (pockets or a belt), and ask if the lav mic will be a lapel clip or an over the ear. The black is banger, will hide sweat, and make any jewelry pop! 💜 050
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 01/10/2026To lose visitors in the year you HOST THE WORLD CUP and celebrate a big anniversary is truly incredible. 25945248
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11571682055
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 30/09/2026Taking a beat to appreciate Fat Bear Week. Likely the all-time most successful government social media campaign by every metric. NASA has to send people to space to get the same amount of attention. Remarkable work from NPS every year to coordinate the public observation of fat bears. 429942
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Again, he doesn’t follow laws or court orders, so the solution cannot be more laws or court orders, & we need to stop deluding ourselves about that: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 513442
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Favorite palindrome: “Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.” 610010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I joined federal service just after the 2018 midterms so suuuuper interested to read this, especially having seen appointees from both T1 and Biden. 010
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026McCall's Costumes unlicensed Dr. Strange Men's Costume Multisize will return in Avengers: Doomsday. 713829
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026if we keep inventing new terrifying names for our problems then no one can be mad if we don't do anything about them 5635
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ABSOLUTELY SCREAM CACKLING at this search prompt and image combo on the new trashbasket america.gov 0216
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Lydia @lunapuella.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026My husband and his friends realised they thought they were good guys but still made like, ironic-sexist jokes. They introduced the 'sexism snake' where wherever one of them made a sexist comment or joke, the others would just start hissing. Didn't need to get into an argument about it, just hissing. 111098188
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄🎃 Mac O'Lantern 🎃 @jacmacandsneeze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it is truly maddening to go most of your life hearing there are no jobs or no money when you look around your neighborhood and see so many things that need cleaning or fixing while your government blows endless cash on venture capital fabulists promising to ensure even fewer jobs and more misery 2278
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...donmoynihan.substack.comDOGE vs. Civic TechAs DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure 18799259
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A good design system helps you make better design choices! 010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I wish there could be something where you still needed to do the requirement, just not at the intro level. And ALSO give credit for the AP scores. I was glad my AP scores allowed me to skip freshman comp, since those WERE skills I had already. Still majored in English, loved the survey courses! 010
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Starting the new season of Bake Off and I know it’s all been filmed but also I hope they get the baker using a wheelchair a station that’s an appropriate height, similar to the bakers who are standing. 210
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Moments like this are when my brain COMPLETELY goes to thinking about trains. Is there a train now, how long would it take, could there be more trains etc etc (Also, hope you got in the air ok!) 110
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A group of major medical organizations released recommendations this morning for Covid, flu and RSV vaccination, including guidance for the general population as well as specifics for children, people over 65, pregnant people and immunocompromised people. Here's a guide.nytimes.comYour Guide to Covid, Flu and R.S.V. Vaccines This Fall (Gift Article)Major medical groups released new recommendations on who should get the shots, citing a lack of strong guidance from the federal government. 13318190
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 26/09/2026JUST THIS MORNING, I saw both this and a note on social media companies rejecting ads about some Elon thing. Organize! Work together! CALL THEIR BLUFF. Shame doesn't work, they do not feel it. Starve them of oxygen, say no to their shit, and be as loud as you can TOGETHER. 1104
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 204189795411
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Interviewing the inventor of napalm about his hats 33572991089
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“Were there easter eggs in there you didn’t get the first time?”static.klipy.comTom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) NervousAlt: Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) from “Succession,” looking up nervously from a folder as the person he’s talking to says that he’s read Mein Kampf “a couple of times.” 021
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There’s lots on @unbreaking.org about transgender health care, but I’m not sure about the passport gender markers. They’re a great place to look though! 011
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And the soupçon of exasperation in the shoulder sag 030
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This “advice” is pretty much describing what civic tech was and was growing towards before DOGE rolled in and tossed it all. 280
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Turns out the cure for imposter syndrome is meeting the real imposters 020
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's about to set sail, they probably have policies around that sort of thing re: fools who did not stay away 000
Reposted by Amanda C 🥄Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026People think politics is something that happens to other people on the television. 7457115
Amanda C 🥄 @amandaesque.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have recurring annual calendar events for certain "grief seasons," even for things that happened almost a decade ago. It's good to have a reminder for my brain about what's happening in my body, especially years after the fact when I might not be as focused on specific dates as an anniversary. 192